MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Miami Beach police arrested a 53-year-old man Tuesday after a bomb threat at a synagogue Friday night.
Authorities said Orpheus Korshak was responsible for posting a threatening note on the front door of Beit Chabad synagogue, located at 1140 Alton Road on South Beach.
Recommended Videos
According to an arrest report, the note was written on a large United States Postal Service envelope. On one side, it said “safe house,” and on the other, it said “bomb threat,” police said.
Police searched the synagogue and found no bomb.
The report states that officers put out a be-on-the-lookout flyer with a surveillance photo of the suspect and a Miami Beach officer identified the man as Korshak, whom he had arrested before.
Officers located Korshak, who is homeless, in the area of Eighth Street and Collins Court, the report states.
Authorities said Korshak declined to provide a statement during a police interview, but as detectives were wrapping up, he said, “That was a warning.”
Korshak was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on charges of making a bomb threat with prejudice, making a false report about placing a bomb, disturbing a school or a religious assembly with prejudice, assault with prejudice and harassment or intimidation based on religious or ethnic heritage.
He remained at TGK with a bond listed in online jail records as “to be set” as of late Wednesday morning.